Learn strategies for writing a publishable personal essay in a month of live classes and immediately unlock classes in the platform-building vault with many recorded lessons on essay writing & submitting, email list building, and content sharing. 

TWO Bonuses offered exclusively for the July 2025 section: 1) Unlock  access to How to Write a Modern Love Essay digital course and 2) Receive instructor review of an essay of 2000 words or less

Class Description and Schedule:

 In each live class meeting, we'll discuss an element of writing and submitting an essay with an eye to all things that make an essay publishable and sharable and we'll also hit on a quick, simple, and no-cost or low-cost strategies for building your author platform. All classes are recorded and meet on Zoom at Noon Pacific Time.

 Thursday July 10th: Essay Openers that make Editors say "Yes"; Taking your idea to first draft; and How to Start Collecting Email Subscribers Without a Website or Even a Newsletter (and Why You Should) 

 Thursday July 17th: Choosing a Target Publication; Why Your Email List Matter and How to Get Your First (or Next) Hundred Subscribers (Even If You Don't Have an Author Website); How to Easily Create a No-Cost Online Portfolio. 

Thursday July 24th: Revising your Draft with your Target Publication in Mind; Creating Authentic, Shareable Content that Doesn't Make You Cringe; How to a Use Bare-Minimum Approach with Social Media to Grow Your Email List (Even if You HATE sharing on social media).

Thursday July 31st: Submission DOs and DON'Ts; polishing your final draft; Emailing Your List with an Email Service Provider